Word: orgasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hostile Themes. Each script, Stoller writes, "is an autobiography in which are hidden crucial intrapsychic conflicts, screen memories of actual events, and the resolution of all these elements into a happy ending, best celebrated by orgasm." Unfortunately, most people work with a story line that includes the harming of someone else. Thus each person picks a lover who fits the script by resembling an important figure of his childhood-a parent, for example, against whom he is seeking revenge...
Alan Hewet, a bookseller at Harvard Bookstore on Mass Ave says that the store has shown a marked increase over the last year in the sale of sex books, like "Woman's Orgasm," by Georgia Kline-Graber and Benjamin Graber. The cover describes the book as "an amazingly easy and successful self-help program developed by a doctor-nurse sex-therapist team...
...culmination of Hite's thesis is that a woman should not have to rely on a man to "give" her orgasms. Rather, she should be able to "take charge" of getting them for herself during sex just as men do--either by asking for the type of stimulation she prefers or by masturbating. Orgasm becomes a verb, something that one does rather than something given or had. This concluding recommendation is, however, problematic. If the women originally felt embarrassed or ill at ease expressing their wants, it seems somehow unrealistic for Hite simply to counsel "taking charge" when precisely that...
...short shrift given dissent reinforces one's suspicion that data was matched to a preconceived analysis. This "study" of female sexuality devotes only about a dozen pages to women who are able to orgasm during intercourse and who do enjoy satisfactory heterosexual relationships. Even though Hite was not primarily interested in examining contentment, this imbalance unfortunately abets those aiming to detract from the report's overall accuracy...
...front page of your November 5th issue you showed a picture of and quoted Sharon Hite under the title: "Hite Study Finds Intercourse Inadequate For Female Orgasm...